Shelbyville
Americannoun
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a city in central Indiana.
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a city in central Tennessee.
Example Sentences
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After securing a patent in 1886, she founded Garis-Cochrane Manufacturing, in Shelbyville, Ill., which during her lifetime supplied commercial customers and eventually became part of KitchenAid.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
The streets are also lined with people in cities like Shelbyville, Kentucky and Howell, Michigan, which has a population of just about 10,000.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
“I think in a state like ours, what we can get out of the federal government we need to get,” McConnell told reporters in Shelbyville.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2024
When Mazza returned to Shelbyville, he called police on Jan. 8 to report that his Taurus Judge had been stolen from his car at a casino in Ohio.
From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2022
The station where Shelbyville now stands was a weak and inefficient one, and becoming alarmed by the presence of Indians in their vicinity, its inhabitants determined to remove to Beargrass.
From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Casseday, Ben
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